Class Mom by Laurie Gelman

Class Mom by Laurie Gelman

With its appealing tone and a sweet mystery at its core, Class Mom offers up refreshingly likable characters in relatably goofy situations by former broadcaster Laurie Gelman, a veteran class mom herself. Jennifer is the take-no-prisoners class mom everybody loves — or loves to hate!

Release date: August 1, 2017

Henry Holt and Co.

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He Said, She Said by Erin Kelly

He Said, She Said by Erin Kelly

A woman claims she was assaulted at a festival; he says she wanted it. This dark, riveting story centers on the age-old question: Whom do you believe? The lone witness thinks she knows the truth, but slowly realizes she may be at risk herself. The shocker twist is a jaw-dropper.

Class Mom by Laurie Gelman

With its appealing tone and a sweet mystery at its core, Class Mom offers up refreshingly likable characters in relatably goofy situations by former broadcaster Laurie Gelman, a veteran class mom herself. Jennifer is the take-no-prisoners class mom everybody loves — or loves to hate!

Release date: August 1, 2017

Henry Holt and Co.

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He Said, She Said by Erin Kelly

A woman claims she was assaulted at a festival; he says she wanted it. This dark, riveting story centers on the age-old question: Whom do you believe? The lone witness thinks she knows the truth, but slowly realizes she may be at risk herself. The shocker twist is a jaw-dropper.

Minotaur Books

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The Windfall by Diksha Basu

A middle-class father in Delhi, India, sells his Internet company for millions and moves his family to a swank part of town with a bewildering new set of social rules to navigate. Each family member embarks on a funny, poignant journey to fit in — and find out who he or she really is.

Release date: June 27, 2017

Crown

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My Sister's Bones by Nuala Ellwood

A stint in Syria drives British war reporter Kate to the brink of insanity, making her unsure where her nightmares end and reality begins. When she returns home, she finds her sister in an alcoholic haze — and a mysterious Iraqi woman next door. One sister dies, one survives — but who?

Release date: July 11, 2017

William Morrow Paperbacks

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One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul

BuzzFeed writer Koul riffs on life as a first-generation Indian raised in Canada. She hits several cultural bull's-eyes in edgy, often hilarious essays dealing with her personal phobias, racism, dating and more. An insightful, engaging read.

Picador

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Seven Days in May by Kim Izzo

The doomed luxury liner Lusitania is the setting for this historical novel that sets four people on a collision course. Three are on board; the fourth, working for the government in London, discovers that the ship is in waters infested with German submarines. A rich, emotional nail-biter.

HarperCollins Publishers

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The Forever Summer by Jamie Brenner

Save this soap opera for a rainy afternoon: A young lawyer blows her career when she falls for a superior at work. Unemployed and alone, she learns she has a half sister — and that everything she knew about her family was built on a lie. A light take on life's big questions.

Little, Brown and Company

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Gone Without a Trace by Mary Torjussen

Hannah returns home from a business trip to the flat she shares with her boyfriend, Matt, near Liverpool — and he's gone. Erased. His clothes and photos have vanished and all his texts and emails to Hannah were suddenly deleted from her phone. Then she starts receiving disturbing messages, and realizes she is being watched. As Hannah searches desperately for Matt, she comes closer to finding out what happened — and facing a horrible truth.

Berkley

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Hum If You Don't Know the Words by Bianca Marais

It's 1976 and the historic Soweto uprising against apartheid in South Africa destroys two families, one white, one black. Out of the ashes, Robin, a 9-year-old orphaned white girl and Beauty, a black mother whose daughter is missing, are thrown together, each mourning her losses and slowly learning to trust each other. But Beauty's search for her daughter takes her deeper into the world of the resistance, putting this fragile new family at risk. With its vivid, emotional scene-setting, alternating narration and tense plotting, this novel is a thoughtful, compelling page-turner.

Release date: July 11, 2017

G.P. Putnam's Sons

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Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Daily life in wealthy, bucolic Shaker Heights, Ohio, is orderly — everyone follows the rules, families look happy, conflict is rare. At least, it is until the day civic leader Elena Richardson's beautiful home burns to the ground, torched by one of her own kids. The novel opens with the fire and jumps back one year to the arrival of the mysterious Mia, a free spirit mom, and her daughter, Pearl. Their relationship with the Richardson family changes everyone's lives — but is it for the better?